The Bishop Auckland 1 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

A two generation Bishop Auckland family

 

 

 

  

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The Story of the Bishop Auckland 1 Line

Thomas Farndale was the fourth son of George and Mary Farndale. He became a Miner in Bishop Auckland, who had a son and daughter, but died at the age of 32. This is a small family, branching from the Kilton 1 Line.

 

I am very grateful to Judith Bremer who has helped me with a lot of information about this family.

 

 

 

The Kilton 1 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Farndale

17 February 1822 to 28 March 1854

Married Isabella Bowes

Miner in Bishop Auckland. Bishop Auckland, Kilton, Easby

FAR00280

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Farndale

1851 to 1919

A labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale and later a labourer and worked in colliery

Bishop Auckland and Willington Co Durham

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Mary Ann Farndale

17 March 1853 to 1927

Dressmaker and excellent needlewoman. Strict, but kind and didn’t drink.

FAR00397

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Nora Bovill

Adopted Daughter

25 December 1885 to 1 May 1957

Married Rupert Evans in Newcastle in 1916

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Bovill Piddington (nee Evans)

9 March 1917

 

 

 

 

 


William Farndale Evans

2 September 1921 to 17 November 1989

 

 

 

 

Judith Bremner (nee Piddington)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ancestry of the Bishop Auckland 1 Line

The Bishop Auckland 1 Line can trace directly back to 1512 from Thomas Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile as follows:

 

Thomas Farndale (FAR00280), 1822-1854

The Kilton 1 Line

                                                  

George Farndale, (FAR00215), 1790-1858

 

William Farndale, (FAR00183), 1760-?

 

John Farndale ("Old Farndale" of Kilton), (FAR00143), 1724-1807

 

John Farndale, (FAR00116), 1680-1757

 

The Liverton 2 Line

 

Nicholas Farndale, (FAR00082), 1634-1693

 

The Kirkleatham Skelton Line

 

Georgins Ffarndayle, (FAR00073), 1602-1693

 

George Ffarndayle, (FAR00067), 1570-1606

 

William Farndale, (FAR00063), 1539-?

 

Nicholas Farndaile (FAR00059), 1512-1572

 

You can then follow details of Farndale in the medieval period who were almost certainly earlier ancestors at Volume 1 of the Farndale directory.

 

You can then explore Yorkshire prehistory to give you a further perspective of the distant ancestry of the people of Farndale.

 

 

Chronology of the Bishop Auckland 1 Line

 

17 February 1822

Thomas Farndale, son of George and Mary Farndale, was baptised at Easby, near Stokesley.

 

1841

Thomas was a servant (probably a farm worker) to George Jennings and his uncle, Matthew Farndale.

 

25 May 1850

Thomas married Isabella Bowes at St Helen, Auckland (southwest of Bishop Auckland).

 

Thomas was then a pitman.

 

1851

William Farndale was born.

 

Thomas was a coal miner at St Helen, Auckland.

 

17 March 1853

Mary Ann Farndale was born.

 

28 March 1854

 

Thomas Farndale died aged 32, of phthisis at St Helens, Auckland. Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis.

1871

 

By 1871, Mary was recorded as a dressmaker.

 

Mary Ann was a respected member of the community, an excellent needlewoman. She did not drink alcohol herself but it was quite proper for visiting menfolk to be offered spirits and for Mary Ann to meet with other women in the ‘front room’ of the Dun Cow where she knew the landlady. Mary Ann visited Bishop Auckland each Thursday for market day and to meet other family members.  She was strict but extremely kind and is only ever spoken of in terms of great respect and affection. ‘There is a memory of visiting ‘cousin’ Ginny/Jenny? White in Queen St Redcar and memories of holidays at Cragg Hall Farm. Matthew (FAR00383), affectionately called Mattha by Mary Ann was an elderly widower by then and he appeared to enjoy her fussing over him.  There is a recollection of a beautiful rose garden hidden at the back of the farm seen only by those at the farm,  fruit bushes dripping with berries, taking the farmworkers lunches out to the fields at midday, being allowed to go shopping on her own to Carlin How or Brotton (an example of the changes in society as she was only 5 or 6 at the time) and reading Pilgrims Progress in the rarely used ‘front room’    A special treat was to be taken for rides in the side car of Herbert’s (FAR00652) motor bike.  Herbert, Matthews’ son was presumably running the farm by this stage.

 

1881

William was a colliery worker. He had moved to Willington, County Durham. Willington is north of Bishop Auckland.

 

About 1893

Mary Ann Farndale, still a spinster, and her brother William Farndale, a Batchelor, together adopted an 8 year old girl, Nora Bovill (born on 25 December 1885).

 

Mary was always referred to by Nora’s family as Aunty Farndale.

 

1901

William was the caretaker in a Church Institute.

 

1911

William was a coke drawer at a colliery.

 

1916

Nora Bovill married Rupert Evans in Newcastle.

 

1919

 

William Farndale died.

1 May 1957

Nora Evans died.